Dow Jones tops 15,000 for first time in history

11:38 AM,
May 3, 2013

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USA TODAY

NEW YORK -- It's been a day of fresh milestones on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones industrial average topping 15,000 for the first time in history and the Standard & Poor's 500 index making its first foray above the 1,600 level.

Following a far better-than-expected number on job creation last month, the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 stock index rallied above the 1,600 level Friday to another record high, eclipsing that psychologically important milestone for the first time.

Traders are breathing a little easier "that the sky is not yet falling on the U.S. economic expansion," says Scott ...